Article via the New Hampshire Bulletin
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"Before Anne Jennison began publicly telling Abenaki stories rooted in her heritage, she went to her parents to ask permission. Jennison knew that telling these stories would “out” her parents, revealing that at least one of them had Abenaki heritage. For hundreds of years since colonization, that has been a dangerous prospect bearing serious consequences – loss of life in the direct violence of early Indian wars, loss of homelands to make way for European colonization, the loss of children during the boarding school era beginning in the late 1800s." READ MORE